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I'm trying to create an ext based storage repository:

xe sr-create content-type="local SR" 

   host-uuid=c7030a1f-15e3-7e7d-2932-b30200a15917 type=ext 

   device-config-device=/dev/sdb1 

   shared=false name-label="Local File SR"

Results in:

There was an SR backend failure.

status: non-zero exit

stdout:

stderr: Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/EXTSR", line 320, in <module>

    SRCommand.run(EXTSR, DRIVER_INFO)

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/SRCommand.py", line 263, in run

    ret = cmd.run(sr)

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/SRCommand.py", line 94, in run

    return self._run_locked(sr)

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/SRCommand.py", line 131, in _run_locked

    return self._run(sr, target)

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/SRCommand.py", line 214, in _run

    return sr.create(self.params['sr_uuid'], long(self.params['args'][0]))

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/EXTSR", line 225, in create

    util.pread2(cmd)

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/util.py", line 177, in pread2

    return pread(cmdlist, quiet = quiet)

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/util.py", line 164, in pread

    (rc,stdout,stderr) = doexec(cmdlist_for_exec)

  File "/usr/lib/xcp/sm/util.py", line 129, in doexec

    proc = subprocess.Popen(args,stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE,close_fds=Tru

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__

    errread, errwrite)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1259, in _execute_child

    raise child_exception

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Editing util.py

vi /usr/lib/xcp/sm/util.py

and adding a print debug output statement:

def doexec(args, inputtext=None):

    """Execute a subprocess, then return its return code, stdout and stderr"""

    print ', '.join(args)  #  Added print statement for debugging

    proc = subprocess.Popen(args,stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE,close_fds=True)

    (stdout,stderr) = proc.communicate(inputtext)

    rc = proc.returncode

    return (rc,stdout,stderr)

returned this output when running the sr-create command:

stdout: sginfo, -s, /dev/sdb1

/lib/udev/scsi_id, -g, -s, /block/sdb

/sbin/vgs, XSLocalEXT-0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a

dd, if=/dev/zero, of=/dev/sdb1, bs=1M, count=100, oflag=direct

/sbin/pvs, /dev/sdb1

pvcreate, --metadatasize, 10M, /dev/sdb1

vgcreate, XSLocalEXT-0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a, /dev/sdb1

/sbin/lvdisplay, /dev/XSLocalEXT-0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a/0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a

/sbin/vgs, --noheadings, --nosuffix, --units, b, XSLocalEXT-0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a

lvcreate, -n, 0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a, -L, 1012, XSLocalEXT-0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a

lvchange, -ay, /dev/XSLocalEXT-0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a/0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a

mkfs.ext3, -F, /dev/XSLocalEXT-0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a/0cee01cd-3f10-9c28-8a0f-dec270e7f37a

/lib/udev/scsi_id, -g, -s, /block/sdb

From this I could see that lvm tools are being used by sr-create.

Problem Solved

These tools were missing on my system. Installing apt-get install lvm2 resolved the issue for me.